re: John Bolton Sabotaged Peace Meeting With North Korea

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Bomb em Bolton is a reprehensible person. From the minute Trump brought him on, it was inevitable that he was going to get his military conflict one way

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Isn't Bolton literally a swinger?

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former South Korean Unification Minister Jeong Se-hyun during a call with the local CBS radio station. He said he was "almost 100 percent optimistic" about the talks up until this morning's press conference and attributed the failure to a last-minute stipulation proposed by Bolton that would mandate North Korea not only report on its nuclear weapons but its chemical and biological stockpiles too.

North Korea then reportedly raised the stakes to include sanctions relief, a deal breaker for Trump. The president would go on to say that the North Koreans "wanted sanctions lifted in their entirety," but in an extremely rare press conference organized at midnight Hanoi time—noon in Washington—North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho contended that he and his compatriots called for the removal of "partial U.N. sanctions," specifically sections of five resolutions that "impede the civilian economy and the livelihood of our people," according to a translation by North Korea News.

Catherine Killough, a Roger L. Hale Fellow at the Ploughshares Fund, told Newsweek that she was "inclined to believe" North Korea's account, as it seemed difficult to believe that Kim would travel some 2,000 miles for nearly three days by train to Vietnam without realistic demands. Bolton, on the other hand, "does not want a deal with North Korea," Killough said. "As long as he is involved in this process at all we have to be very wary."

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While experts were notably disappointed by the outcome of the second-ever U.S.-North Korea summit, they cautioned against casting an overly pessimistic outlook. Daniel Wertz, the program manager for the National Committee on North Korea, said that "President Trump and Chairman Kim walked away from the table, but did not burn their bridges in doing so."

"Both sides have an interest in not letting this process collapse," Wertz said, also highlighting South Korea's potential role as mediator in the process. "The real question for the weeks and months ahead is whether or not the two sides will be content with just staying in the sort of equilibrium we've reached and been in in the past eight months or so, or will their negotiators be able to find a way to bridge the gap and start making progress."

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Yeah, you guys said the same thing about Trump, WWIII was going to start

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John Bolton Sabotaged Peace Meeting With North Korea

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I said no such thing about Trump. However, I've never had anything good to say about Bolton. I think he represents the worst of Republicans, hes a typical interventionist warhawk and I don't care for the man.

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